A tricky jewelry device or how a big brother is watching us

In our time of progress in electronics, few people are surprised by "smart" watches, rings, smartphones in jewelry. But no wiretapping devices in jewelry have been reported so far. Irons, telephones, refrigerators and televisions - all this technique is already habitually considered to potentially collect information about us, but stones in jewelry ... Isn't this too much? And finally they waited. Last fall, 2020, a quarterly publication of the American Gemological Institute "Gems & Gemology" reported the discovery of chips that autonomously collect and transmit audio information in the near access zone, embedded in a cultured pearl. For the average citizen, of course, such a surprise will not be of any interest, but if you are suddenly a bearer of any information, and even more so discuss it with colleagues, then it is quite possible that your conversations are broadcast over the speakerphone on the street, like in one French comedy ... BE CAREFULL!

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